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"John the Baptist, Ezekiel, Amos, and a handful of fishermen need not apply."

...Nor my late father-in-law who was the person solely responsible for seeing that my wife had perfect Church/Sunday School attendance for 15 years, begining when she was three days old.
When she was about ten years old, she and her older brother had the dubious honor of hearing one of the better dressed matrons of the Church tell her father that he should wear something better than the over alls he had on.
Never mind that was all the old man owned. He was a share cropper with 6 children and no wife to help.
To his great credit, he did not let this incident keep him or his children away from church but as soon as my brother-in-law was old enough to make his own church going decisions he never set foot in a church again up to and including his own funeral.
I am of the opinion that his decision was wrong but I didn't help form his opinions, the well dressed church lady did.
My brother-in-law was a Christian and supported financially a local church pastored by a high school friend of his he did it anonymously and the only reason I know about it is my wife worked as his book keeper.

My brother-in-law passed away about two years ago and I miss him, he was one of the finest people I have ever know in my 58 years on earth.
Graybeard from N. Pekin